LIMA, Peru -- A mummy estimated to be between 800 and 1,200 years old has been unearthed by archeologists in Peru, at a site near the country's capital city of Lima. Researchers from the National ...

A team of scientists from the Institute of Archaeology at University College London became the first researchers to utilize a new, cutting-edge laser imaging technology called laser-simulated ...

Construction workers have been baffled to discover an ancient mummy buried in a hidden tomb beneath the streets of Peru's capital, Lima. While expanding the city's gas network, utility workers ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — For more than 5,000 years, humans have adorned themselves with tattoos. In a new study, researchers used lasers to uncover highly intricate designs of ancient tattoos on mummies from ...

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Utility workers excavating trenches to expand the network of natural gas pipelines in Peru’s capital have uncovered a pre-Inca mummy approximately 1,000 years old, barely half a ...

If tattoos are prone to fading within a single human lifetime, imagine the wear-and-tear on the tattoos of 1,200-year-old mummies. An international team of researchers has, for the first time, used ...

LIMA, Peru (AP) – The mummified toddler seized from antiquities traffickers is at least 700 years old and sits, spine curved forward, only about a foot tall. It was welcomed back to Peru on Tuesday as ...

LIMA, Peru (AP) — Utility workers excavating trenches to expand the network of natural gas pipelines in Peru’s capital have uncovered a pre-Inca mummy approximately 1,000 years old, barely half a ...